Dysarthric speech reconstruction is challenging due to its pathological sound patterns. Preserving speaker identity, especially without access to normal speech, is a key challenge. Our proposed approach uses contrastive learning to extract speaker embedding for reconstruction, while employing XLS-R representations instead of filter banks. The results show improved speech quality, naturalness, intelligibility, speaker identity preservation, and gender consistency for female speakers. Reconstructed speech exhibits 1.51 and 2.12 MOS score improvements and reduces word error rates by 25.45 and \(32.1\%\) for moderate and moderate-severe dysarthria speakers using Jasper speech recognition system, respectively. This approach offers promising advancements in dysarthric speech reconstruction.

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Enhancement of Dysarthric Speech Reconstruction by Contrastive Learning

  • Fatemeh Keshvari,
  • Rahil Mahdian Toroghi,
  • Hassan Zareian

摘要

Dysarthric speech reconstruction is challenging due to its pathological sound patterns. Preserving speaker identity, especially without access to normal speech, is a key challenge. Our proposed approach uses contrastive learning to extract speaker embedding for reconstruction, while employing XLS-R representations instead of filter banks. The results show improved speech quality, naturalness, intelligibility, speaker identity preservation, and gender consistency for female speakers. Reconstructed speech exhibits 1.51 and 2.12 MOS score improvements and reduces word error rates by 25.45 and \(32.1\%\) for moderate and moderate-severe dysarthria speakers using Jasper speech recognition system, respectively. This approach offers promising advancements in dysarthric speech reconstruction.